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🌍🔎 Doe mee aan Mapathon 1571!
Help een unieke 16de-eeuwse kaart van het Brugse Vrije digitaal verbinden met het huidige landschap.
📅 14 & 15 maart 2025
📍 Stadsarchief Brugge
➡️ Info & Inschrijven: mappingpourbus.ugent.be
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De opgraving een groot privaat badhuis in Pompeji gaat de wereld rond. Maar wist je dat er in België nog veel grotere Romeinse privébaden zijn gevonden? Leer alles over de badgeschiedenis van België in mijn nieuwe podcast open.spotify.com/show/5PmHwf…
🎉 Big news! We just announced #ICAP2025 keynote speakers! 🎉
Reminder: Abstract deadline is this Friday, 20 Dec. Published in ArcheoSciences!
Submit now: prospect.ugent.be/icap2025/
#Archaeology #CFP #NonInvasiveArchaeology #ISAP #ArchaeologicalProspection #Conference
📸Live from @StadBrugge City Archive: Together with @vioe, @MuseaBrugge & @artinflanders we are making a new HR photographs of Pieter Claeissens' painted copy-#map of the Liberty of #Bruges (1601).
🗺️3000km² of late #medieval #landscape soon at your disposal, in full detail!
ALT Photographer Rik Klein Gotink taking one of the most difficult of +200 shots, at 6m height.
📢For those interested in #RuralHistory, #EnvironmentalHistory, #LandscapeArchaeology, #ArchaeologicalSurvey & #MapHistory, our new paper “Marginal Mounds and Maritime Shepherding” @JnlWetlandArch covers all those topics.
👉Check it out doi.org/10.1080/14732971.202…
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🗺️For Map Historians, this case-study validated the topographical accuracy of Pieter Pourbus’ painted map. Not only is it designed with advanced methods (doi.org/10.1080/00087041.202…), also its topographic content is a treasure throve of undiscovered archaeological sites. (7/8)
🔍 At a broader level, this paper highlights the delicate balance between human activity, livestock, and coastal environments. It contributes to the understanding of how such #taskscapes were integrated into regional land use and shaped the historical landscape we observe today.
Finally out: new research on Pieter #Pourbus, a mid-16th-century artist and mapmaker, who produced highly accurate maps of the coastal area around Bruges (Belgium). How did he achieve such a precision? Find out in this 🧵or in the 📰👇 #MapHistory #cartography (1/7)
ALT Pieter Pourbus' map of the Liberty of Bruges, Musea Brugge 0000.GRO0220.I , https://dam.museabrugge.be/iiif/3/1619/manifest.json
Read more in "Illuminating Sixteenth-century Measuring Methods and Map Design: New
Findings from Pieter Pourbus’ Chorographic Maps" published #OpenAccess in the #Cartographic Journal: doi.org/10.1080/00087041.202…
This #postdoc research is funded by BOF @ugent & @FWOVlaanderen. (6/7)
Finally, the #animation produced by #SeeYouBaby for the #exhibition 'Pieter Pourbus - Master of Maps' @MuseaBrugge (Dutch with French/English subs), in which Pourbus' survey method is explained for a broader audience, is now available on vimeo.com/1018238804 (7/7)